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ffmpeg command lines are straight up black magic.
Anyone who understands them is not to be trusted.
It's even worse than tar.
GNU tar is easy and straight-forward.
It's also completely incompatible with any other Unix, but then, what difference does it make is nobody can use them?
A more complex but more commonly used program is
rsyncrsync -rav /home/user/Documents /mnt/usbdriveis treated differently thanrsync -rav /home/user/Documents/ /mnt/usbdrivewhich is different thanrsync -rav /home/user/Documents /mnt/usbdrive/which is different thanrsync -rav /home/user/Documents/ /mnt/usbdrive/It's a great tool for making copies onto drives, even servers. But man you have to double check how each folder path is laid out, otherwise it'll write the files of one folder to the main drive, unorganized.
I recommend
--dry-runand reading the stdout with human readable output-h. And dont use the--deleteflag if you dont know what will happen 😓